Position Summary
The Occupational Therapist will be directly involved in patient evaluation, planning, directing and administering occupational therapy modalities of treatment as prescribed by a licensed physician. He/She will assist patients to reach their maximum performance and level of functioning, by providing effective, and quality care for the patient. She/He will ensure patient charges are accurate and entered on a timely basis. The Occupational Therapist will coordinate, delegate, and supervise assigned supportive staff (COTA). Provide effective, efficient, and quality care for a geriatric and adult population. Perform other duties as directed by supervisor.
This position requires the full understanding and active participation in fulfilling the mission of AHMC- Seton Medical Center. It is expected that the employee demonstrate behavior consistent with the core values of AHMC- Seton Medical Center and AHMC Healthcare Inc. The employee shall support AHMC-Seton Medical Center’s strategic plan and goals and direction of the performance improvement plan. The employee will also be expected to support all organizational expectations including, but not limited to; Customer Service, Patient’s Rights, Confidentiality of Information, Environment of Care and other initiatives.
ORGANIZATIONAL EXPECTATIONS
- Meets customer service expectations and AHMC Activities.
- Promotes a service culture - AHMC Customer Service Standards.
- Demonstrates the customer satisfaction standards set for the institution.
- Actively participates in ways to prevent customer complaints and dissatisfaction with services.
- Focuses attention and actions on what is best for the patient or customer.
- Attempts to identify all customer needs and tries to meet and/or exceed expectations.
- Interacts with all customers in a caring manner.
- Contact with others is polite and proactive.
- Promotes a positive teamwork environment.
- Creates closure after interactions.
- Communicates effectively in a positive, respectful and concise manner.
- Demonstrates Core Values and supports Mission, Vision and Values and Code of Conduct.
- Can articulate and demonstrates support for organizational goals, the Mission and Vision of the Institution and the core values.
- Assures patient/family rights are respected and fulfills the Medical Center’s Patient Safety Philosophy.
- Maintains confidentiality of patient information and Medical Center business matters.
- Complies with all established policies and procedures.
Job Description & Competency Assessment Tool
- Safeguards self/others and physical plant and equipment.
- Demonstrates and understands personal and department role in the security, health, life and safety plans.
- Demonstrates and understands role in the hazardous materials plan and can access information on MSDSs.
- Demonstrates and understands the role in the hospital emergency and disaster plan.
- Follows procedures for reporting faulty equipment or service problems.
- Performance Improvement
- Participates in performance improvement activities.
- Understands and advocates AHMC initiatives.
Essential Job Functions
- Consistently applies infection control policies/practices.
- Understands and practices standard precautions for self and others in patient care activities.
- Understands and practices appropriate disease-specific isolation.
- Ensures sterility of supplies and equipment.
- Meets population/age specific competencies per unit specific addendum.
- Attends department specific education/training, inservices, and staff meetings.
- Attends mandatory inservices/educational/training activities.
- Submits all required paperwork on time.
- Ability to perform patient care within the designated time frame and follows recommendations in accordance with AHMC policies and procedures.
- Ability to work independently without constant supervision.
- Upon referral, evaluate patients by performing appropriate functional assessment as related to occupational therapy.
- Identifies appropriate goals and administers effective treatment plans.
- Efficiently implements and modifies treatment plans.
- Ability to observe and evaluate treatment effect, recommends change to physician as needed.
- Formulates a teaching plan based upon identified learning needs and evaluates effectiveness of learning, family training is included as appropriate.
- Completes all documentation required by either policy, procedure, or regulation.
- Delegates and supervise patient treatment as appropriate to the COTA.
- Co-signs all COTA’s notes.
- Ensures patient charges are accurate.
- Completes billing sheet accurately by end of day and prints out end of shift charge report.
- Maintain completed documentation in the medial record within the prescribed time frames, accurately and clearly.
Education/Training/Experience
Graduate of an accredited speech pathology program or equivalent education/experience
LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS
SP-Licensed Speech Pathologist
BLS-Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider
Possess and maintains a current BLS certification.
